Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now (again - according to my understanding) under contention - i.e. when > processes need to use more physical memory then what is available - the > memory manager keeps swapping stuff in and out of memory in an attempt > to satisfy all requests. Under such conditions its might be useful to > know - for each process - the amount of physical memory in use, the > amount of virtual mapped to the process, but also how much of that > virtual memory the process actually tries to use but can't get it all in > physical RAM because other processes are also hogging the memory.
All of the above is basically correct. > Does such a thing exist in Linux? Internally to the kernel, look at the active_list and inactive_list members of struct zone. I have no idea whether it is exposed to userspace in any way. You can find out, I suppose. So the kernel knows it, what would you do with it as a user? If you need it and the kernel does not allow you, I suppose you can write your own /proc file module... May be a nice exercise for students... -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
